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No league win for Neville yet as Valencia draw against Getafe

Xinhua, December 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

Gary Neville is still searching for his first league win as Valencia coach as his side was held to a 2-2 draw in the Mestalla Stadium against lowly Getafe on Saturday afternoon.

The result allows Valencia to maintain their unbeaten home record for 2015, but home fans were expecting more in the wake of last weekend's fortunate 1-1 draw away to Eibar.

All of the goals came in the first 35 minutes and Valencia had to twice come from behind as Pablo Sarabia opened the scoring after 10 minutes for the visitors.

That goal was soon cancelled out by a typically smart Paco Alcacer strike, but Angel Lafita soon put the visitors back in front only for Santi Mina to once again bring Valencia level.

Meanwhile the Seville derby between Betis and Sevilla produced plenty of fouls and 12 yellow cards but no goals as the bitter local rivals produced 90 minutes of what can only be described as 'football' in the loosest sense of the word as both sides used any means fair or foul to try and get a result.

Felipe Caicedo's 5th league goal of the campaign gave Constantin Galca a win on his league debut as Espanyol coach as the Barcelona based outfit defeated Las Palmas 1-0.

A much improved second half display from Espanyol gave them the win after a dull first half.

Sunday sees Real Madrid entertain Rayo Vallecano while Atletico Madrid can go top of the table if they win in Malaga. Endi